Over recent months I have been watching my 10 year old nephew, Victory, learn dinghy sailing. The small local sailing club organises youth training and activity weeks, all staffed by cheerful volunteers whose love of sailing inspires them to give their time to try to...
I sometimes don’t remember how Body Harmony has changed me. Early in May 2020, one afternoon I walked down to the beach and went for a sunset swim. This was at a time when the coronavirus had already claimed over 260 thousand lives globally. The unemployment...
"For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap it in two. Now that the rope has snapped, do we tie its ends back together, or...
I am living in south of Spain and most of my clients are from the Swedish community here. We have a monthly magazine called ”Svenska Magasinet” which gives me the opportunity to sometimes write articles for them. I am sharing a translation into English with...
I'm trying not to use the word "normal" anymore, in fact I'd quite like it removed from the dictionary. In my opinion it is a dangerous word. 'Normal' has got us to where we are now. 'Natural' disasters increasing (read 'made by humans'), the rise...
‘Unprecedented’ is a word I have heard used in the Australian media a lot lately. And it’s true. The experience of recent months across the country with fire has been exactly that. There are some other words that deserve to be used also: catastrophic, devastating,...
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." —Nelson Mandela In our family we have a list of words different members of the family don’t...
The enjoyment of having long-term clients and awareness raising questions El texto en español está debajo I feel blessed having a group of people who have been my clients for 20 to 25 years, coming for Body Harmony sessions. 25 years is quite a big part of...
Back in the day I used to believe that embodying your goals was largely down to luck. These days I see embodiment more as lifelong commitment, a discipline of thought, word, posture, breath, and deed. Three years ago I read a strong affirmation on the front of...
I’ve been contemplating and musing on connection and its myriad forms these last few weeks, as I’d offered to write the next blog for the Body Harmony Association. What is it? How do I create, maintain, sustain the sense of it, and why do I...